Best way to do static overlay over scrolling content?
Best way to do static overlay over scrolling content?
- Subject: Best way to do static overlay over scrolling content?
- From: Daniel Vollmer <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:55:46 +0200
Hello,
I have a visualisation application that displays multiple graphs (currently using NSCollectionView, but possibly switching to an NSView-based NSTableView in the future) that looks like this: http://www.maven.de/code/wowplot/example_chains.png
When you scroll sideways, the "title" of each graph stays in place, whereas the rest of the content scrolls as usual. Currently, I simply redraw the whole graph (well, the visible bit). This strikes me as rather inefficient, because I essentially need to redraw the complete visible portion onScroll instead of only the freshly revealed bit.
There are some things I can think of, but I'm unsure on which would be the most appropriate way:
- Put an NSTextLabel inside the NSScrollView's contentView and dynamically reposition it into the visibleRect.
- Add a largely transparent subview to the NSScrollView (so it's the same size as the visible portion) and draw all titles in there, transforming coordinates as needed.
Preferably, the compositing would only happen once when the visibleRect changes, not each frame (so the transparent blend doesn't each too much graphics memory bandwidth).
Has anyone got any experience with this or suggestions on which way would be most appropriate?
Thanks,
Daniel._______________________________________________
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